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which prevented the Doctors taking fo nice a view of 
all the parts wichia the Abdomen as he would other- 
V. i(c have done. He tound fome black Chokr in the Sto- 
mach, the D^odtmm and the reft of Inteii'md tenuia, 
void of excrement, but incredibly diftemper'd with Wind, 
and tracing the Canalis of the Cuts as far as the C£cum, 
found that of a blacki(h colour ^ and from thence for a- 
bout a yard in length, the Colon mortified and fo rot- 
ten, that the Excrements bad made their way thro it at 
feveral places, into the Cavity of the Abdomen 3 about 
2 inches of the mortified Gut was faftened to the Perito- 
t?£Hm on the right fide. This part of the Colon was fo 
extended with excrements of a foft confiftcnce, that they 
when taken out filled two Chamber-pots 3 at the extremity 
of the mortification, towards the Re&um the obftruftion 
v/hich occafioned all thefe misfortunes offered it felf to 
viev/ very plainly 5 for about ten inches of the Colon was 
doubled^as if you had taken a piece of Tape^and folded it 
the two contiguous furfaces of the duplicature adhered fo 
firmly together, that you could not feparate them with- 
out tearing the exterior coat of the Inteftine. Upon fepa- 
rating this coaiefcence, there fell from that part a whitifh 
Mucus, the adhefion was about 3 inches broad 5 the 
middle of the Duplicature which made the acute angle, 
and where the excrements flopped, was f mailer, and the 
Membranes thinner than in any other part of the Gut^ 
from thence towards the Reftom the Colon. was found, 
and void of excrements, occafioned by the frequent ufe 
,of Clyfters. 
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